Comments on: Violence Unsilenced: How To Help and Support Abused Women

By: End Domestic Violence with Dockers

End Domestic Violence with Dockers — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:39:20 +0000

[...] Domestic Violence—One year after a woman named Shanna started dating a man named Sam, she realized something was horribly wrong. What at first seemed like great qualities in him, like “leadership” and “willingness to help,” revealed themselves as control, as he did things like cleaning out her kitchen cupboards without being asked and stopping by her work unannounced to solve a conflict with a co-worker. He raged at her when she didn’t pay the discount price on a soda. He even proclaimed ownership of her breasts. Shanna realized soon after that there was not one woman in his life that he respected, not even his mother, and that he never accepted blame for any of his tirades or extreme behavior. Though her self-esteem was in the gutter, she eventually got up the courage to leave him. [...]

By: Childhood Cancer Support: Sheila Quirke Educates and Shares Her Experience

Childhood Cancer Support: Sheila Quirke Educates and Shares Her Experience — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:58:28 +0000

[...] Support—I cannot begin to imagine losing one of my children to cancer. I could not be one of the 10,400 mothers who find out they have a child with cancer each year. And I certainly couldn’t blog about it. I am continually amazed by the women we feature in this column, who have the strength to look outward from within their trials, to re-live some of their suffering online so that others may learn from it. They power a truly powerful aspect of the blogosphere. Sheila Quirke is one such amazing woman, someone who has risen from the depths of grief over the loss of her daughter to cancer enough to tell her daughter’s story, which she does at MaryTylerMom. [...]

By: Human Trafficking: Heather Huffman is a Writer and Fighter « Mom it Forward

Human Trafficking: Heather Huffman is a Writer and Fighter « Mom it Forward — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:49:18 +0000

[...] people out there in this world who are in need of awareness, support, and help — people who are abused, homeless, hungry…the list goes on and on. Thankfully, there are organizations out there to [...]